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Sadly Chaos Storm takes 2 attunement slots and ordinarily you can only get a single copy per character (you cannot naturally get another in NG+ and beyond). It still was very tempting to use it, though!

@@keiferjh Aw, understandable. I think it may be possible to mule great chaos firestorm across multiple ng+ cycles with a second character and a lot of prism stones, but that's a whole lot of work for not a whole lot of payoff.

I've been meaning to learn how to glitch drop spells, and see if there's a way to even dupe them without another character. It may not be worth a whole run, but I do want to play around with Chaos Storm too!

​@@keiferjh I admit, I am far from an expert in things like this, but there may be a way to combine the negative quantity drop and spell drop glitches to produce a single-player spell-dupe. If I had to guess: Item cram to get a stack of a non-stackable weapon you can purchase, then clear your inventory back to normal limits again. Drop a large number of prism stones and make sure they're rendered on your screen, (number depends on what device you're playing on, good PC's are tough, but consoles are generally easy to work with.) This should set up the spell drop glitch. Pretend to purchase another instance of your stacked weapon but cancel instead of actually buying it. This should store the negative quantity. The trick is finding out how to get one to the other. Ordinarily for the spell drop one just goes from weapon, drop, cancel to the spell very quickly, but that might not work since spells don't bring up the drop number menu. Alternately, maybe you just fully reach the inventory limit, drop the prism stones, do the spell drop, try once to pick it back up, then reduce your weight and pick it back up again? That duplicates weapons and armour, and semi-consistently duplicates rings, perhaps it'll work with spells?

Thanks! I initially went in with the idea of using Chaos Storm but it ended up being less feasible for what I wanted to do with the run. Chaos Storm uses two attunement slots and you can also only get one copy on a single character, regardless of how many new games you play through. In terms of damage Chaos Storm can be more damage as long as the target also gets hit, potentially multiple times, by the lava puddle it leaves behind.

I'm glad you liked it! It's an application of Spell Swap. I have a more detailed video for the general version, but in short you cast one spell with a spell tool while switching spells and then the next frame cast a different spell with a different spell tool. You end up getting the animations of the first spell but the result of the second. In this case you can cast from Fire Surge into Fire Tempest and get the continuous cast of fire pillars. The only extra bit is that you have to hold the input for the second cast to keep it going.

It should be possible, though I've not personally tested it.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

What's better than fire? More fire!

Glitches: The unofficial difficulty slider :D

They're a dangerous bunch :D

Oh goodness, it's been so long since I've watch the opening cinematic. One of the best parts about sharing these videos is when folks point out stuff like this!

​@@keiferjhtheory: Velka once drew a kadokawa anime fanart. Patches made her super weak using his joke abilities and forced her to do so otherwise gwyndolin would be killed. She complied and patches undid everything. Gideon paid patches to do this

Satisfying indeed! I was expecting to have to test if the slow walk while casting still works to avoid Smough's attacks, but a stun lock work just as well!

It worked even better than I expected!

Oh, that's an interesting idea! In a quick test I was able to get her to the fog wall, with some coercing, but she also seemed adamant about trying to return to spawn. Though that does result in a hilarious interaction with the staircase elevator not letting her... It might be possible but I certainly wasn't able to get it quickly.

@keiferjh wow thanks for trying it! Forgot to say so but I loved the vid and others, pretty refreshing takes on the game rather than the "can you beat dark souls with x weapon" like duh you can level 1 no hp fist only hitless the game I have a feeling you can beat it with a hammer. Good shit.

@roribune8162 It was such an interesting idea I couldn't not try it! I appreciate the kind words! I just finished up another run so hopefully you'll get to enjoy another video in the next week or so 😁

I love the fact that there's some lore backing behind the glitch!

Scaling with both Intelligence and Faith makes Pyromancies quite the Faith-full Sorceries

Oh, that's an interesting question! I hadn't tried it before so I had to give it a quick test with a Crystal Halberd. As suspected it'll let you cast the spell but oddly it does not seem like the durability of the weapon gets updated. I tried with a similar glitch to "item swap", and Repair Powder gave the same results. So at the very least, unfortunately, a straight forward Spell Swap doesn't seem to do the trick.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've got more ideas; slowly but surely they'll be videos!

I'm excited to try a run with that combo! It certainly sets up for some additional interesting interactions!

@Kabank1ller Yup, such a run was fun indeed. Especially with 300 casts of Fire Tempest :D

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Maybe you've already gotten it by now, but the biggest advice I can give is to keep trying. It's a hard glitch (frame perfect, IIRC) but certainly doable. One of things I have noticed is that depending on how worn out a controller is (r1 is often worn out for obvious reasons in DS) the timing changes for me. Usually I rest my fingers on all the buttons but with a little less force on whatever needs to happen later (r1, I believe) and press them "all at once"; however, I've noticed one of my controllers is especially worn out and it almost feels like I'm changing which input needs less force. Really it comes down to experimentation with keypresses close to "all at once" to find the muscle memory that works for your setup. Probably not super helpful, but I hope you do (or already did) get it!

@keiferjh :D thank you so much, I'm starting to get it more consistently but I'm no where near being able to do it on demand, your video and explanations were so useful

Progress is progress! While it always feels good to get things consistently, for me this is something that can be just as fun even before then. I'm glad I was able to help and I hope you have fun with it!

Nice! I hope you have fun messing around with Spell Swap!

@keiferjh it's been really rough trying to implement it into pvp because I'm super inconsistent but this guide made everything understandable and helped a ton

@jacksondean7119 PvP has never been my cup of tea, but I can certainly see how Spell Swap would be valuable there. And it certainly does take a lot to have any amount of inconsistency!

Nice! This is certainly a fun one to play around with!

Sometimes the game is whatever you want it to be! Especially when it's as broken (in a good way) as this!

For as much as I've played, I know surprisingly little of Dark Souls lore. It's been really interesting finding out from the comments the lore connection between Pyromancies and Sorceries! Part of me wishes I knew while making the video since it could make for an interesting narrative, but it's equally cool to learn from others!

@@keiferjh Yea the Demon and Izalith Catalysts both mention flame sorcery. Ironically the demon firesage was the last Fire sorcery who wasnt related to the witch of Izalith

It is a hard one. I've played around with using AutoHotKey with it and even that isn't straight forward as the timing is tight (frame perfect, IIRC). Something that helps me is to rest my fingers on the necessary buttons and press them "all at once", but start with less pressure on the input that is supposed to happen later. Sometimes I've even noticed that a worn-out controller requires less perceived delay, or even feeling like the inputs are reversed, so it really comes down to playing around with the timing and getting a feel for what works. Probably not the answer you were hoping for, but hopefully with some experimentation you'll find something that works for you (if you haven't already)!

@ thank you for this reply I will definitely keep trying!

I've not personally tested on console, but both relevant glitches should be possible as long as it's Dark Souls Remastered. First is the "Quantity Usage" glitch that allows you to use more of an item than you actually have, which can then be used in conjunction with an actual duplication of the items you have. I have videos on both, which while focused on PC should only have minor differences from the controller examples. Or I'm sure there are plenty of videos with Console specific footage if something isn't obvious.

@@keiferjh Oh, Thank You for this! You DEFINITELY got my New Sub!

The short answer is because it felt more fun :D The initial thought was focused on coming back with stronger pyromancies, but to be honest I probably would have done it anyway to finally learn a true Asylum Skip.

Thanks! I'm thrilled you enjoyed! That Manus fight was something else; it took many, many, attempts and a trade felt very fitting!

I'm glad you enjoyed! The goal was to have fun, which this run certainly was!

It hasn't been my cup of tea either, but at least there's an option to play offline. As long as everyone has broken stuff to mess with I could potentially see some people liking pvp, but what gets me is when it impacts people who aren't playing with or don't even know about the broken stuff.

There are certainly some good ones!

That was a fun sequence to try and film!

What are your thoughts? For me it depends on context. With a first playthrough it'd feel like a cheat but in a lot of other circumstances it's just a glitch since it is part of the game. If it relied on a tool or something outside the game it'd stay feeling like a cheat more often. It all comes down to what "rules" you're playing under.

Fair

As implemented it doesn't feel that good, but immunities aren't the worst. I imagine part of the developers' expectations were that pyromancies don't rely on character level thus making it easier to level other stats and have something else to rely on. At the very least, though, it would have felt better if there were things like Black Flame earlier in the the game to more naturally overcome fire immune obstacles.

But it's still fun!

He never said it’s a challenge run, some People play certain builds to have fun, not to make the game hard.

From my understanding it's not guaranteed. Regardless, I most certainly backed up a save file just in case.

For better or worse, that feels like Souls quests in a nutshell. Thankfully it's not bad once you know the triggers and upgrade a Pyromancy Flame before visiting and before taking out Bed of Chaos.

Hmm... if that was supposed to mean something I did get it.

I didn't know Demon's Souls worked like that! Eventually I'll get around to playing it.

@@keiferjh yea in demons souls there was fire sorcery. In the dark souls lore it’s implied to have existed as well but was “lost to time” and hence pyromancy was created. So it’s a little nod to demons souls. What you’ve done is unironically canon. EDIT: actually it’s funny, the overpowered combo you’re doing is the same spell that totally breaks demons souls as well which I assume is why they made pyro a separate class from sorcerer originally 😂😂😂😂

@deathsyrup That's super cool! If I would have known it may have made some interesting narrative to add in, but I guess it's just as fun for others to find that narrative themselves!

@@keiferjh They nerfed pillars of flame in the demon souls remake. You could infinite cast spam it on small platforms and insta kill invaders because it made all the pillars appear on top of each other. Very hilarious. Plus consumables giving you infinite mana with duplication glitch. Yea it was pretty broken. The entire “limit number of casts per rest” was probably a reaction to the spam of just that one spell 😂😂😂😂😂

It can if you try hard enough! But yes, it would have been cool if it had an intended mechanic along those lines!

There are almost too many glitches to choose from! I appreciate the kind words!

That'd be quite the surprise in a first playthrough! If it was the same thing it also takes forever even after he disappears to get the victory screen so there's plenty of time to be confused!

Admittedly I hadn't heard of him as I only started playing Souls games with DS3, but from the little I just looked up I appreciate the complement!

The ones of legend!

Much appreciated! It was fun to do a bit of planning and then just see where the run goes!

I'm glad others also enjoy some good "unintended mechanics"! Thank you for the support!

You're right; I so often think it is a DLC area and it's always a pleasant thought that it wasn't!

... with a touch of miracles, if you would

You can't handle my strongest fire sorceries Traveler, they are too strong for you.

@@loocsihaon pyromancer, listen to me. I want only your strongest fire sorceries

@@verycooleveryonesaysso You can't handle my strongest fire sorceries traveler! You should go to a pyromancer that sells weaker fire sorceries!!!

@@loocsihaon pyromancer what do I have to tell you to get your fire sorcereries? Why won't you trust me with your strongest fire sorceries, pyromancer? I need them if I'm to be successful in blight town!